A GENERAL and COMPLEAT TREATISE ON ALL THE DISEASES Incident to CHILDREN, FROM Their Birth to the Age of Fifteen. WITH Particular INSTRUCTIONS to tender Mothers, The whole made Familiar to every CAPACITY. Dr. JOHN ASTRUC, AND Chief Physician to his prefent Majesty the King LONDON: Printed for JOHN NOURSE, at the Lamb, MDCCXLVI. THE PREFACE. HE principal motive which T induced me to publish these lectures, is the great reputation Doctor ASTRUC's works bear among the learned; not only for his perfpicuity in theory, juftnefs in his principles, but fuccefs in his practice, which have gained him an univerfal approbation, and make this work preferable to any thing written on the present subject: for all the authors who have hitherto treated of the difeafes of children, if Originals, are either too confused and imperfect, or not fufficiently copious; if Compilers, they are unintelligible from their injudicious collections; wherefore to fupply thefe defects, the Dr. has endeavoured to keep a medium; infert nothing superfluous, neglect nothing neceffary, and to adapt the ftile to the meanest capacity. I hope the candid reader will cor rect and excufe the few miftakes of the pret's by the errata. I have nothing more to premise, but leave the whole to the judgment of able phyficians; for fay what I will in favour of this treatife, it is its merit alone can give it reputation. |